User:Michael holohan/Michael Holohan

Michael Holohan (b.1956 Drumcondra, Dublin) is a freelance composer, musician, lecturer and broadcaster. He was educated at O'Connell's School CBS, U.C.D. and Queen's University, Belfast. He has won numerous prizes for his compositions and has attended masterclasses with Olivier Messaien, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio and Helmut Lachenmann in France. His music has been performed and broadcast both in Ireland and abroad. He has collaborated regularly with well known Irish poets such as Seamus Heaney, Richard Murphy, Dermot Healy and Susan Connolly. In 2002, with the poet Paul Durcan, he won the Celtic Music Prize as RTE's entry at the Celtic Film and Radio Festival in Quimpers, Brittany. His commissions include the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, RTE, The Cork International Choral Festival, The National Concert Hall, RTE Lyric FM, and The Dept. of Arts, Sports and Tourism. A former chairman of The Asssociation of Irish Composers and The Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, in 1999 he was elected to Aosdana, Ireland's state-sponsored academy of creative artists. 'Running Beast' his collaboration with the playwright Donal O'Kelly toured Ireland and Europe extensively during 2007-2008 as part of the Irish Government's 400th Commemoration of the Flight of the Earls. He has lived in Drogheda since 1983, close to the Prehistoric and Early Irish Christian sites of the Boyne Valley which have been a constant source of inspiration to him as a composer.

Selected Works: Cromwell ''Leaves of Glass A Snail in my Prime ''The Legend of Fraoch ''Carving the High Cross' The Mass of Fire Bagairt na Marbh Quis est Deus The Road to Lough Swilly My Place of clear water The Dream of Aengus

Discography: A River of Memories ''Fields of Blue and White References

   